This is a discussion on Chrome Extension Installer (.crx file) within the Chrome Plugins section, part of the Google Chrome category: When you download a CRX file for a Chrome extension it creates a folder that contains 2 things ...
One ...

Chrome Extension Installer (.crx file)

When you download a CRX file for a Chrome extension it creates a folder that contains 2 things ...

One is a folder (eg New extension) containing the JSON and JS files for the extension, the other is a file called 'Current Version' which simply contains the name of the folder (eg New Extension) containing the above files.

The questions I have are ...

What is used to create the 'Current Version' file as its file type is simply File

What is used to create the CRX file from the folder and file (described above)

I know that if you enable extensions on your Chrome shortcut it will get it's information from this folder so you can actually have multiple extensions installed.

Think it will be extremely useful as there seems to be a lot of confusion out there about extensions and how to implement them :-)...

Have to say a lot of the credit goes to Charles @ Landemaine (author of AdSweep) spent a lot of time this morning emailing back and forth working out exactly how the Chrome Extension Installer actually works as Google seem to have withdrawn the developer notes for it (although you can stll get to it here ....